second prompt table results

[fsf_mod]

So, the comm has spoken, and "Queer Women's Literature Quotes" was the theme winner. I have quite a few ideas for inclusions there, but to make sure we get a nice variety of prompts, I'd like to open this up to you all as well! Do you have a favorite quote that fits the theme? Or a writer whose style would make for good prompts? Suggest away in the comments, and I'll get working on a table!

Comments

[sylvaine]

Literature, that is, prose only, or poetry too? Dramas? :D

[fsf_mod]

Ack, sorry for the slow reply, but yes, poetry and dramas as well, definitely! It'd be nice to have a broad range of quotes if possible!

[axelmania]

these are probably obvious choices, but both audre lorde and sarah waters have a great many beautiful quotes that i think would work well as prompts.

[fsf_mod]

No, those are great suggestions, and they really do have some lovely words to choose from!

[zdenka]

Something from Sappho!

[fsf_mod]

Yes! Sappho would have to be in there, I think.

[merryghoul]

Pat Parker!

[fsf_mod]

Ooh, that's an excellent suggestion, thank you! Definitely going to go with something from her!

[breathedout]

A few suggestions:

"She is the gape of a second. A glyph you remembered how to read. The other lovers rattle their sabers. They don't see WHAT. She's not really THAT. It's all a cumulus din you wade around in when she leaves for years. Her words are a dry arroyo. It is all an ice pack, novocaine, delerium tremens, the haze left after a high fever. Until she comes back." (R. Erica Doyle)

"I loved you, Atthis, once long ago / A little child you seemed to me and graceless" (Sappho, trans. Anne Carson)

"That conversation we were always on the edge
of having, runs on in my head…" (Adrienne Rich)

"I want to possess you completely—
Your jade body
And your promised heart.
It is Spring.
Vast mists cover the Five Lakes.
My dear, let me buy a red painted boat
And carry you away." (Wu Tsao, trans. Kenneth Rexroth & Ling Chung)

"Please tell a story about a girl who gets away.”
I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. “Gets away from what, though?”
“From her fairy godmother. From the happy ending that isn’t really happy at all. Please have her get out and run off the page altogether, to somewhere secret where words like ‘happy’ and ‘good’ will never find her.”
“You don’t want her to be happy and good?”
“I’m not sure what’s really meant by happy and good. I would like her to be free. Now. Please begin." (Helen Oyeyemi)

"I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing; when both have fallen in love but still haven’t said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing." (Tove Jansson)

[fsf_mod]

These are just gorgeous, thank you so much!